Month: November 2014

We’ve all had a bad experience or three on Trade Me. It’s not the company per se, it’s the people who use it. A bit like hand guns. You’ve wrapped the six sets of Merino wool, never-worn socks. The money… Continue Reading →

I’ve had it with Auckland people and car park rumbling. Who knew that aside from a single bedroom apartment in Dannemora for $890,000, a car park could be such a precious piece of real estate? Let me set… Continue Reading →

The KiwiRail Scenic Journeys advertisement, featuring the duet from The Pearl Fishers. What happens in the scenes on this train journey montage is exactly what happens on this kind of trip through New Zealand: you begin to look outward… Continue Reading →

We’ve arrived. We all die, and when that happens, no one wants to be put out in a rubbish sack. Funeral plans ensure that will never happen … or do they? The baby boomers are aging, they are comfortably set… Continue Reading →

Love your work I bet John Key says it to his PA as he flings an important file on their desk at 4.58pm. I bet Kim Dotcom says it awkwardly I larve your verk! I can hear it coming from… Continue Reading →

I have an image in my head of a troll being a small, malevolent man with a white beard who lives under a bridge and leaps out at goats as they wander past, scaring them and generally vexing them at… Continue Reading →

Just got back from the school disco, where I accompanied my daughter and stepson. It was great. They had a ball, with the glo sticks, the sugar, the tooth decay and the nausea from listening to the music of… Continue Reading →

A couple of weeks ago, Sky TV sent me a kindly email offering me a free two-week subscription to one of a small selection of channels of my choice, on the proviso that they could then snatch it all away… Continue Reading →

I’m still not married yet. I’m supposed to be, this year. Right now. I’m noticing that this year is almost closing and I never organized my wedding, like I was supposed to. From what I can tell, I… Continue Reading →

I’m about to pitch a new game to the people at Sony. It’s an RPG set in a dystopian future, of course. The great thing about it is that you get to create the dystopian future in the first part… Continue Reading →

(or how Katherine grudgingly gave me space on her blog) Dear friends, brothers and sisters, and perhaps, if I can get away with it; comrades. I report back to you following my somewhat successful journey behind the silver curtain, I… Continue Reading →